A curious touch to our memory of the Apostle. In 1933, Vasil Levski’s house was deserted and dilapidated, its yard was overgrown with weeds.
The mayor and municipal councilors in Karlovo decided to tear it down so that a street could pass through this place. The decision was made without objections. What’s the problem with pushing the Apostle’s house? It’s more important to have a street, right?
Fortunately, at that time, the first Bulgarian film director Vasil Gendov arrived in Karlovo (“A Bulgarian is a gallant”, you know). He came to shoot a film about Levski. “Hurry up with the movie,” the locals told him. “Because that house will soon be gone.”
Gendov got mad, went to the town hall, but there they told him: “This is the situation. The decision has been made. The house will be pushed.”
Vasil Gendov remembered that the commander of the 21st Sdnjegorsk squad stationed in Karlovo was Colonel Petar Dimkov (yes, the same one, the healer). A worthy Bulgarian officer.
Gendov went to him and told him the case.
When Dimkov found out that there was a mayor’s order to demolish the Apostle’s house, he sent 12 soldiers from the squad to guard the house and ordered them, if anyone from the municipality went to the house, to shoot at the meat.
In the following months, Colonel Dimkov organized an action to restore it, collected money and materials, sent soldiers to work.
Thus, two great Bulgarians – Vasil Gendov and Petar Dimkov saved the Apostle’s house, which is now a museum.
If it weren’t for them, she might not be here today.
